How is that related? Women generally feel perfectly fine with men in dresses if everyone is okay with it, and it’s even pleasant for a partner: well-groomed hands, a face that isn’t windburned, a clean head.
Freddie didn’t have problems with his orientation; he had problems accepting what was happening to him. There were too many incompetent managers.
Society sticks its nose into other people’s pants far too much. And it doesn’t do anyone any good.
What happens in the bedroom between one adult and another should concern no one — as long as everything happens with consent.
There are general standards of cleanliness and the use of language as a tool. If we’re talking about AIDS, which took him down: both hetero and bi people had it. What complaints can there be against men and women who infect their heterosexual partners in heterosexual sex?
The world is this way: taboos on certain social connections that don’t personally concern you grow into taboos on consequences that personally affect everyone.
Because reasonable but “socially suspicious” questions and actions are avoided at all costs.
Sex education in schools is fucked today, everything is in the hands of parents and the young generations themselves.
And I don’t have 100% proof that he was specifically gay.
But he did a lot both in music and in openly speaking about the illness — back then that reduced stigma and helped in the search for treatment.